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Back in 1960 Electronics Weekly was born into a ferment of III-V semiconductor research that within two years would produce the first practical LED.

In 1960 Dr Nick Holonyak of General Electric was developing an unusual material, GaAsP, as a route to wide bandgap tunnel diodes.

Hi all I am off to the USA on Monday to be part of the Strategies and Light. We are part of the program as Jim will be doing a talk. Also, we have a stand so pop by if in the area.

I will post during the week on important updates from the conference. 

http://www.strategiesinlight.com/index.html

"What were you doing in 1989? Maybe you were rocking out to "Don't Worry, Be Happy," the Grammy-award winning hit of the year. Perhaps you were killing time playing Tetris on the newly-released Nintendo Game Boy," she begins.

High electrical efficiency means low heat and, oh dear, LED traffic lights don't get warm enough to melt snow from their own lenses.

Boing boing has the story.

By the way, LED car headlight makers are aware of the ice and snow problem.
 
Electronics Weekly knows of at least one that is using a fan to blow air from the LED heatsink over the front glass for defrosting.

Steve Bush

Getting ready to ship the stand and demos over to Jim our US Business manager so that we have the new parts ready for the stand!!!

If any of you are over in sunny San Diego in October drop by the conference and show.

Here is the link to the conference site take a look as there are a collection of great speakers talking on the latest advances in the technologies.

http://www.ledsconference.com/

Not sure where the time has been going the last few months but all we hear is the downturn in business and business closing down, well I have to say that from my side I see that the LED market did take a dip in the first 2 months this year but since then we have been going flat out. The orders and enquires are pouring in and times look to be really good going forward.

We at Carclo have re-organised ourselves and the LED team is now a standalone group within Carclo and this has meant changes in the way we work with the group as now they are our suppliers of the moulded optics, this means we are in the process of increasing our capacity and will have a number of production sites worldwide manufacturing our optics.

This will be a benefit to our customers in we will have even better local support and supply.

We have also been busy at shows with Strategies in Light being the start of the year and LightFair next month closely followed by EuroLED in the UK.

When one of my friends told me that LEDs were now being used as a weapon to incapacitate suspects I was a little bit sceptical to say the least, or more truthfully I thought he should lay off the heavy stuff. However, I decided to do a quick Google search, more to shoot down his theory in flames than to see if it was true.

I was more than a bit surprised when I actually got some results.

Word of the Electronics Weekly LED blog has spread to my village, which is now obviously driving the hit rate up by thousands. It has led to suggestions I should spend more time in the pub instead of writing about LEDs - fair point, they should put WiFi in my local, so i can multi-task. However, beyond this blog their are a number of sites, lighting and LED related, constructed by people who really should have something better to do. I've already pointed to LED Museum, but it gets better. Earlier this month I was searching google for some PED images for use in a Dialight presentation.

Recently refurbished National Express trains have been fitted with reading lamps "upfront", and each one has a switch - but they are never used.

The joys of modern technology allow me to write and post this blog from a seat on the 12:05 Leeds to London train service.

I received a copy of the VIZ annual for christmas, on one page was a useful tool for TV executives to name reality shows - .i.e celebrity -electronics design - boot camp. With so many companies starting up in the LED space I have created my own version to help anyone searching for a start-up name.